Refrigerator.



The cabinet 1 REFRIGERATOR.

Specification of Letters Patent. P t ted Feb. 28, 1911.

UNITED STATES PATENT oi FIoE.

ARTHUR C. CONNOR, OF SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS.

Application filed September 2., 1907. Se1ia1 No. 391,083.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR citizen of the United States, residing at Springficld,- in the county of Sangamon and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Refrigerator, of whiclrthe following is such a fnllydlcar, and. exact description as will enable o'thers' skilled in the art to which it a'ppertains to make and use my said invention.

This invention relates to 1'-(:.i.'rigc 'ato1's of that class known as counter refrigerators.

The purposes of this invention are to provide a refrigerator so constructed and arranged that its contents i'nay' be visible from the outside of the refrigerator: to provide ice-chambers of improved cou in-mtion; and to provide means for disposing ot the "Water produced by the melting ice. With these ends in view my invention 'mnsists'in the novel features of construction and combinations of partsshmvu in the annexed drawing to which reference is hereby described and finally recited in the claims.

Referring to the drawing, in which similar reference numerals-and characters designate like parts in the several views; .liigurc 1 is a perspective view of the complete frigerator; Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section through the cabinet of the refrigerator and'shows the ice-boxes and connected parts, and Fig. 3 is an enlarged partial vertical section through onset the ice boxes.

is a. Wooden structure lined .in-the usual manner with zinc or other suitable metal, and has an upwardly extending tower 1. Within which the icc-box 2 is housed. horizontal partition 1" divides the box into an upper provision chamber 1 au d a lower provision chamber ll". A v01 t'ical qiartition 1? li'ftl'lSVQlSG'ilO the cabinet and on top oi the horizontal partition '1" extends upva rd within'the tower and forms, .vvitll the cud-wall of the cabinet: an air flue 1,. The parti f'in l does not extend the full length of L116 cabinet. There is a space 1 between the end of the partition and the end Wall of the cabinet. The a *a of the vspace l llUllWtOll the lengthwise. pzu'tit'ion 1" and the end of the cabinet is greater than the transverse area of the ice box 2 in order to facilitate the removal of the ice 1 03; and in orler to aitord a; down-draft opening aroum t'lic ice box through which air from .thcuppcr provision chamber 1 may circu- C. GoNNon, a.

made; and hereinafter particularly thus producing extreme. cold.

lateinto the lower provision chamber 1 as shown by the arrow Y.

The arrangement of the. ice box on a higher level than the. ice box 2, and the vertical tine 1 extending upward along the-ice box 2 and the down-draft opening 1 ause the air currents to traverse the entire length of the upper provision chamber 1" and the entire length of the lower n'ovisioi'i chamber 1". l

'lho cabinet. t has glass panels 1 and doors 1 provided with glass panels 'l. The tower l. has at its upper end a door l through which the ice-box 3 may be charged and the cabinet has a similar door 1" through which the icebox 2 may be charged. A sheet metal pan 3 rests upon the partition l and supports the ice-box A. similar pan 3" rests upon the floor l of the cabinet and supports the box 2. The boxes 2 and 2 are of galvanizediirou and are provided with overflow pipes L and 2*. brain pipes 4t- :uul 4 PlOYltlCt'l with traps i? and te are connected with the pans 3 and 3. The water resulting from the melting of the ice in the. boxes and 2- llOWs out through the pipes 2 and 2 into the pans 3 and 3 and is led awa by the pipes 4: and 4.

In use the boxes 3 and 2 will be filled with a refrigerating mixture of ice and'salt The movement ofthe air currents through the cabinet and around the ice-boxes 9 and 2' are indicated by arrows Y, Y, Y and. 1. It will be observed that the boxes 2 and 2 are on different levels and at opposite ends of the refrigerator. The warmer currents of air ascend through the line 1 into the tower as shown by the arrows. Y and Y, and upon being cooled by contact with the cold surface of the tank 2; take the downward course indicated by the arrows Y and Y;

and constant circulation is within thorofrigcrator.

The glass panels of the cabinet permit inspection of the refrigerator without; opening the doors.

Ilavingliully described my invention what I. claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A refrigerator comprising an upper provision chamber and a lower provision chamber separated by a horizontal partition, andcommunicat'ing with each ot'l1er';cooling means on one'lcvel occupyiiu space at one end o't one provision chamber; and other thusmaintained tending upwardly through said opening and occupying space in both provision chambers, also to form an up-dratt opening adjacent to an upper level ice box above the partition; on upper level ice box located above said horizontal partition at one end of the cabinet; and a lower level ice box at the opposite end of the cabinet and extending upwardly through. the down draft opening-adjacent to one end of-the horizontal partition and adapted to again cool air cooled in the first instance by said upper level ice box and traversing the length of said upper provision chamber.

3. A refrigerator comprising a cabinet having a tower, is horizontal partition eX-- tendin the iul length thereof, and dividing the cabinet into an upper provision chamber and a lower provisionchamber, said horizontal partition being shorter than the provision ehsmbers to leave at one end of said parti-- length-Wise of the cabinet less thantion an up-drui'l opening,a1nl lo leave at the' cxtel'iding upward into the tower of the cabinet; and a lower level. ice-box situated within said down-draft opening and occupy ing space in said upper and lower provision chambers; said upper-level ice-box, upper provision chamber, lower-level ice-bozgand lower provision chamber being in such relation to each other that air cooled by said upper level ice-box and traversing the length of said upper provision chamber and to some extent warmed therein will pass downward through said downdraft op ening and will be again cooled in contact with said lower-level ice-box, will traverse the length of said lower provision chamber and pass upward through said updraft opening to the upper space of said tower.- to be again cooled'by said upperdevel ice-box, and so on continuously. i v

In itness whereof Ihave hereunto subscribed my name at Springfield Illinois this 29th day of August 1901' ARTHUR C. CONNOR.

Witnesses:

Fonm'on W BROWN, W. K. HALE. 

